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November 14, 2017 Manitowoc homeless man claims to work at Menards, asks to use store computers
MANITOWOC – A homeless man was arrested early Sunday morning at Menards after pretending to be an employee and tried to access the store computers. A report from Manitowoc Police Department said Jazzmar A. Turner, 23, entered the store, 5120 Calumet Ave., at about 6:30 a.m. from an employee entrance, and said he was a worker “from the […]
November 14, 2017 What life will be like when the computers disappear
What happens when the computers around you all but disappear? Tiny sensors built into walls, household products, what you’re wearing, and perhaps your own body will make computers invisible to the eye, but responsive to a gesture, voice, and perhaps your movement as you walk into a room. It is still very early, but the era of ambient […]
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November 14, 2017 IBM announces new advanced quantum computers
IBM has announced hitting a big milestone in the ongoing race of building the most powerful quantum computer. Dario Gil, who leads IBM’s quantum computing and artificial intelligence research division, said last week that the company’s scientists have successfully built and measured a processor prototype with 50 quantum bits, known as qubits. Gil says it’s […]
COMPUTERS November 9, 2017 Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin, but fixes are available now
An international group of quantum boffins reckons Bitcoin could be broken by the year 2027. The researchers from Singapore, Australia and France say that scenario represents the worst case, and would see a quantum computer able to run Shor’s algorithm against the cryptocurrency’s protective elliptic curve signature quicker than the 10 minutes Bitcoin needs to […]
COMPUTERS November 9, 2017 Computers trained to solve crimes by bingeing on TV drama
Computers are being trained to solve problems by bingeing on episodes of a popular TV crime drama. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh mapped footage, script and background sounds from five seasons of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) into a machine-readable format. The data was fed into a computer model that learned to process the plot as each episode unfolded, […]
COMPUTERS November 9, 2017 Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security
Bitcoin is taking the world by storm. The decentralized digital currency is a secure payment platform that anybody can use. It is free from government interference and operated by an open, peer-to-peer network. This independence is one reason Bitcoin has become so popular, causing its value to rise steeply. At the beginning of 2017, a single […]
COMPUTERS October 23, 2017 Google Debuts Software to Open Up Quantum Computers for Chemists
Google unveiled software aimed at making it easier for scientists to use the quantum computers in a move designed to give a boost to the nascent industry. The software, which is open-source and free to use, could be used by chemists and material scientists to adapt algorithms and equations to run on quantum computers. It […]
COMPUTERS October 4, 2017 ARTIFICIAL SYNAPSES COULD LEAD TO BRAINIER, SUPER-EFFICIENT COMPUTERS
BRAINS, BEYOND THEIR signature achievements in thinking and problem solving, are paragons of energy efficiency. The human brain’s power consumption resembles that of a 20-watt incandescent lightbulb. In contrast, one of the world’s largest and fastest supercomputers, the K computer in Kobe, Japan, consumes as much as 9.89 megawatts of energy—an amount roughly equivalent to the […]
COMPUTERS October 2, 2017 Are Computers Already Smarter Than Humans?
Who’s smarter — you, or the computer or mobile device on which you’re reading this article? The answer is increasingly complex, and depends on definitions in flux. Computers are certainly more adept at solving quandaries that benefit from their unique skillset, but humans hold the edge on tasks that machines simply can’t perform. Not yet, […]
COMPUTERS September 14, 2017 Punjab to fix and use discarded machines to acquaint schoolkids with computers
Earlier, SAD-BJP government too had also announced the same programme several times, but the scheme could not be launched. Before starting the much awaited computer education programme in the government primary schools, the Punjab government had decided to use old, junked computers to make kids familiar with computers. The government has decided to go ahead […]
COMPUTERS September 12, 2017 Over 1.65 Million Computers Infected With Cryptocurrency Miners in 2017 So Far
Telemetry data collected by Kaspersky Lab shows that in the first nine months of 2017, malware that mines for various types of cryptocurrencies has infected more than 1.65 million endpoints. According to Kaspersky, detections for cryptocurrency mining trojans rose from a lowly 205,000 infections in 2013 to nearly 1.8 million in 2016, and 2017 looks […]
COMPUTERS September 8, 2017 This qubit redesign may make it easier to make quantum computers
Quantum computers could handle models that are too complex for us to run now Tomasz Zajda/Alamy Stock Photo The race to create superfast computers is accelerating. A rethink of one of the most fundamental parts of a quantum computer could pave the way for ultra-powerful devices. Andrea Morello at the University of New South Wales in […]
